PART 3BENEFITS FOR PRACTITIONERS ETC.
CHAPTER 5DEATH BENEFTS
Pensions for surviving adults
Re-employed pensioners: adult survivor pensions in initial period200
1
This regulation applies if, apart from this regulation, both regulations 196(1) and 197(1) would apply on the death of a member.
2
Where this regulation applies, the rate of pension payable by virtue of regulations 196(1) and 197(1) during the initial period (as defined in the respective regulations) shall instead be the rate provided in paragraph (3).
3
Subject to paragraph (4), for the relevant initial period the rate of the pension payable under regulation 194 is equal to the sum of—
F1a
in the case of—
i
a deceased active member, the rate of the deceased’s pensionable earnings during the last complete quarter before the member’s death, or
ii
a deceased non-contributing member, the rate of the monthly average of the deceased’s uprated earnings on the member’s last day of pensionable service; and
F2b
the rate of the deceased member’s pension payable at the time of death after taking account of any reduction in the rate of the pension under—
i
Chapter 8 of this Part,
ii
regulation 185, and
iii
regulation 260K.
4
Paragraph (3)(a) does not apply if—
a
the rate of the pension payable to the surviving adult in respect of later service, and
b
any children's pension that would otherwise be payable in respect of later service under this Part,
would be greater.